Is there any link between the weekly human cycle and weather?

Question

I am interested in the linkage between the cyclical timing of human activity, and whether that has a direct affect on weather. Most obvious to me is the weekly cycle, which is observed by most of the world.

For example, humans generally produce less air emissions on the weekends because they do not have to commute to work, and some businesses are less active. This means there are less cars on the road (or for less time) and therefore less vehicular emissions. In some cities, this can lead to an effect during the summer where ozone concentrations are higher on weekdays and reduced on the weekends. There are also instances where human activity can lead to higher particulate emissions on weekdays, which could cause weekly patterns in fog or albedo. In general, if the radiation budget is perturbed, it could theoretically affect weather.

Perhaps there are other examples too. So, is there any link between the weekly human cycle and weather?

Answer 1

Human activity can change weather locally, for example if you live in lower floors in a hotel room besides a hectic highway it would certainly be cooler whenever traffic is lower because of the combustion engines, but on other level certainly trees grow faster closer to hectic highways from car emissions of CO₂ and thus provide more canopy and in some sense change the pavement habitat a little bit.. But usually one ought to think that the city exists somewhere because the weather allows it and poor human planning and projects are defeated by weather agents along the way in history.

I am sure there are other examples of local weather being affected by concrete, i.e. city formation, such as thermal inversion. But remember that the atmosphere behaves like a liquid and is constantly being moved about by hydrodynamical forces and any particles tend to precipitate or be blown away.

Not sure about what you said about ozone, though. Ozone is primarily produced by ultraviolet light from the sun. Sun ultraviolet rays hit oxygen and produce ozone so oxygen will protect humans from ultraviolet light whenever sun rays contact oxygen, not at night obviously and less in winter times.